1 Sweden, 2 Russia, 3 Serbia, 4 Azerbaijan, 5 Albania, 6 Estonia, 7 Turkey, 8 Germany, 9 Italy and 10 Spain.
Romania finished 12 and San Marino and Switzerland did'nt even reach the final! This seems only to confirm and strenghten the bad tendencies since the late 80's where showing off in different (and unexpected, amusing or powerfull) ways are more important than the songs themselves. Sad of course, but only what we should expect in an increasing media (of all sorts) crazy world. Sweden with it's more general than usual or neutral ways of international inclusive artistic performance were perhaps doomed to win - their song is forgotten by most people already the day after, I think. Well, some of us at least, don't follow that flow, but I fear we are diminishing in numbers. This means it's getting more and more difficult to buy the high quality stuff of different kinds in the shops with less people supporting the great goods (some of which I have mentioned earlier). To survive even bigger firms follow the easy artificially way instead of their earlier eco friendly way of producing goods. Typically even Coca-Cola here has began adding artificially E-stuff in their bottles to keep low prices - so I don't drink Coca-Cola ("The Not So Real Thing)" anymore. Buggles: "Living in the plastic age" and teared down what is natural and not harmful to ourselves. Organic bananas etc rot in the shops here, just because there are more advertising of bananas with pesticides. The list goes on and on...
2012-05-27
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Must admit that I had not followed the political activity of Loreen (the singer of Sweden) - but I guess a zillion others followed that stunt of her. That explains better why a cheap house music "song" mixed (during ten minutes??) on a machine got more attention than her strongest competitors - also with their kind of attention drawing activity ("babushca me in my a..!" etc). That's not fair to the other artists and their coworkers that perhaps for weeks or even months had struggled to make a really entertaining and harmonic performed song. The song contest in Europe hasn't been itself since the Berlin wall began to wither during 1988 - 1989 untill it was destroyed.
ReplyDeleteI guess that Media and their eager-beaver coworkers (mainly journalists) tried to take the credit of that event - today twitter etc is used to try to make cheap political points and govern the way people should vote (to save Baku, save...??). I just get soo maaad about this!! Feel used, anyone? Then drop the twitter nonsense!
Twitter is the cause of group pressure that may stop people from thinking themselves and just "follow the flow" - by propaganda:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120531101708.htm